* updated docs
- for devs:
- added inventory/vars section
- made some updates to general section and other plugin types
- for users:
- added 'user' plugin section to start describing the plugins
- docs on types, what they are and how to use
- removed ref to deleted AUTHORS file
- corrected several typos/headers
- added descriptions to config.rst template
- ignore generated files for cli/plugins and config
- remove new generated files on `make clean`
- moved details from devguid and intro doc to plugin specific pages
- pretied up lookup notes
- changed precedence ref to not conflict config
- removed duplicate config data, as config is autogenerated and up to date
- put new plugins under playbooks
- added `pass` cause rst/python dislikes fractions
- removed dupe in .gitignore, alpha sorted to avoid moar dupes
- added try cause rst/python freaks out
* generate plugins into their own dir
only do plugins that support docs
use toctree from main plugins page
As discussed before we selected win_environment to the documentation,
and point to win_uri for a more advanced module.
If we want to make this the reference module, we have to get this one
absolutely right in every possible way.
This PR cleans up both win_environment and win_uri, and makes the
required changes to the windows module development section.
Generate rst docs for plugins
Based on rst generated for modules. But generated plugin
docs go into docs/docsite/rst/plugins/$PLUGIN_TYPE/plugin_name.rst
( docs/docsite/rst/plugins/connection/ssh.py for ex)
* move plugins docs to rst/*_plugins/ subdirs for namespace
* Only gen support pages for modules for now.
* Add generated plugin docs to gitignore* add list_*_plugins templates
* support MODULES/PLUGINS filters for make htmldocs
Add a 'PLUGINS=ssh' filter env var like MODULES to filter plugins to build docs for.
* fixup 'historical' version_added, skip plugins/loader.py
* Fix plugins_by_support ref link to new plugins/*/ location
* use :ref: for common_return_values, allow empty version_added
* warnings on missing doc info
* add a prefix to _random_choice
It was colliding with the target for random_choice plugin
Addtions to porting_guide_2.4
* deprecated notice for win_package return values
* Added vars plugins, config api, inventory plugins. These were mostly backwards compatible.
Added notes for users and devs to check out new features once i write the 'feature docs' I'll
come back and link to them from here
* Porting Guides for Ansible Versions
Improve the user facing documentation.
Tell people what changes they need to make
* More porting guides
* Link porting guides from TOC
* Link porting guides from CHANGELOG.md
* typo in link
* Review feedback
* Better CHANGELOG links
* Better links
* code blocks
* Minor changes
* Correct links, comment out network section in 2.4
* Typos
* Revert non 2.4 changes
* Add placeholders for other items
* multiple inventory
* Update porting_guide_2.4.rst
* Update porting_guide_2.4.rst
* Update porting_guide_2.4.rst
* Update porting_guide_2.4.rst
* add win_command/win_shell escaping notes
* Added some windows porting info
* Edit for grammar
* Correct links, delete Net Platform Agnostic
* 2.5 link
* Network changes in 2.4
* facts_namespacing was pushed back to 2.5
Due to lack of time we pushed this back to 2.5 so that the facts in the namespace could be shortened.
* Python version
* Remove FIXMEs - move to seperate PR
* Consistency and document treatment of default bool values
* Document that default bool values can be any Ansible recognized bool.
choose the one that reads better in context
* For fragments used by the copy module, make bool types use type=bool and not choices
* Edit for clarity
* Fix refs for local_facts and various cli :option:
* Fix dev_guide/testing_pep8 refs
* remove ref to non-existing 'developing_test_pr'
* Fix ref to ansible-vault encrypt_string
* Removed hard-to-localize colloquialism.
* Rename '_ansible-pull' in playbooks_intro.
It was conflicting with rst/ansible-pull.rst. Nothing
seems to reference it.
* Add explicit targets for and update refs
Replace some ':doc:' use with ':ref:'.
Replace some :ref: to section names with explicit targets
(:doc:`Dynamic vs. Static` -> :ref:`dynamic_vs_static` etc)
* The 'YAML+Jinja' syntax lex fails here, so just use yaml
Since the yaml+jinja highlight fails, code wasnt highlighted
at all, but 'yaml' works more or less.
* just use no lexer for the < python2.6 examples
py3 will fail highlighting them, and 'python2' throws
a lexer warning, and nothing actually highlights it, so
just disable.
Fixes#29060
Allow delegate_to if transport is either nxapi or eapi.
Persistent connection uses `cli` transport and create
a local socket on control node. Hence delegate_to is not allowed
for `cli` transport.
However as `nxapi` and `eapi` transport does not use persistent connection
it is possible to use delegate_to in this case.
from __future__ unicode_literals leads to developer confusion as
developers no longer can tell whether a bare literal string is a byte
string or a unicode string. Explicit marking as u"" or b"" is the way
to solve the same problem in the Ansbile codebase.
* Use a rst glossary for playbooks_keywords docs
* Add a 'Task' and 'Tasks' to glossary.
* Update keywords desciptions,
* use :term: rst ref, some quoting
* Make it more obvious that 'retries' and 'until' need to be used in combination.
* let generate_man also gen rst pages for cli tools
* make template-file, output-dir, output format cli options for generate_man
* update main Makefile to use generate_man.py for docs (man pages and rst)
* update vault docs that use :option:
* Edits based on
6e34ea6242 and
a3afc78535
* add a optparse 'desc' to lib/ansible/cli/config.py
The man page needs a short desc for the 'NAME' field
which it gets from the option parse 'desc' value.
Fixes building ansible-config man page.
* add trim_docstring from pep257 to generate_man
use pep258 docstring trim function to fix up any indention
weirdness inherit to doc strings (ie, lines other than
first line being indented.
* Add refs to cli command actions
To reference ansible-vaults --vault-id option, use:
:option:`The link text here <ansible-vault --vault-id>`
or:
:option:`--vault-id <ansible-vault --vault-id>`
To reference ansible-vault's 'encrypt' action, use:
:ref:`The link text here <ansible_vault_encrypt>`
or most of the time:
:ref:`ansible-vault encrypt <ansible_vault_encrypt>`
Since json_query treats backticks as delimiters for literals,
some of the examples in the json_query docs can be made a little
simpler. Rather than replacing such examples, demonstrate the
alternative
The variable was pointing to a file with a `.cer` extension but the curl command downloads a `.pem` file which makes executions of the bash script fail
* start rst docs for ansible-vault encrypt_string
* wip, vault format docs
(sorta markdown ish atm)
* wip - formatting
* wip, vault docs
* Fix refs to other docs for now
fixing default_role in conf.py will remove need
for this
* add 'ref' to cli names
* more vault docs
* wip, misc fixes
* add some encrypt_string examples
* Fix up rstcheck warnings
The code blocks in question included the output that would
be echo'ed from running the command, which isnt valid bash.
* fix formatting and rstcheck warnings about code-block
* Add envvar ref for ANSIBLE_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE
* fix doc title
* Fixed title underline
* Edit pass for relocated community documentation.
* Updated info on Ansibullbot
Fixed improper link syntax
Change links to point to new documents
Changed Ansibot to Ansibullbot
Clarified workflow
Change formatting on commans and tags
* Update communication.rst
Add Contents
Use correct headings
* Update communication.rst
* Topics, remove whitespace, codeofconduct
* Formatting
* Correct heading
* Update maintainers.rst
* Minor edits and a request for more info
* Removed some hard-to-localize wording.
* Removed incomplete sentence
* Minor edits per review
* wip, gen docs from config/base.yml
* wip
* dont change conf.py here
* cleanup, add dump_config --template-file cli opt
* some desc are string, some are lists...
TODO: fix base.yml so it is consistent
* Filter out TODO and empty descriptions
* Can be set via env, credential profile, or module arg
* Valid values defined by Azure Python SDK, currently `AzureCloud`,`AzureChinaCloud`,`AzureUSGovernment`,`AzureGermanCloud` or any Azure Stack metadata discovery URL.
* Revise and link inline to the lists of modules
* Fix jinja2 objects.inv fallback path
* Fix bolding of deprecation marker
* Change module_support to link to lists via :doc:
That links to the top of the page instead of a section.
* Add a short text for each list of maintained modules
* Change maintenance info to only display on core and network modules
* Fix 'the the' typos, fix 'pahting' filename typo
* Change 'the the' typos to a single 'the'.
* Change `playbook_pahting.rst` to `playbook_pathing.rst`.
* Delete trailing space in ec2_vol example
Delete the trailing space in `instance: "{{ item.id }} "`, which makes the
example fail when run because it looks for instance "i-xxxx ".
* Use a template to generate the category lists
* Refactor so that we first extract all of the data that we need to
build the docs and then give that data to the templates to build with
* Add docs page listing modules ordered by support level
* Add network value to support_by field.
* New support_by value, certified
* Deprecate curated in favor of certified
* Add conversion from 1.0 to 1.1 to metadata-tool
* Add supported by Red Hat field to ansible-doc output
* Added cyberarkpassword lookup plugin
Added cyberarkpassword lookup plugin: It allows to retrieve credentials
(password, sshkey) from CyberArk Digital Vault
In case we build docs offline, we want to have a cached copy of the
documentation refs that are in the intersphinx docs we reference.
Update those to the lattest versions from their respective upstreams
1. Copied over content from existing rst/community.rst page (which will be refactored once all these pages are in.)
2. For features, pointed to the Proposals section, which we should probably leave in ansible/proposals, where it is actively used.
* Adapt azure_rm_resource_group to azure 2.0.0 + azure Cli support
* Fix exceptions in Azure ARM plugins
* update azure_rm_networkinterface documention to reflect required params
* change state param to not required for docs in azure_rm_subnet
* fix import to reflect azure==2.0.0 changes
* add aliases and fix docs for azure_rm_storageblob
* add resource_group_name alias to azure_rm_storageaccount_facts
* fix import bug due to change in azure==2.0.0
* fix args bug and enum modules issue
* update docs to reflect azure==2.0.0
* pin management clients to a specific api_version
* update docs to reflect the new azure-ansible-base python package
* add fallback for older api resource group listing
* rework azure dependencies installation
* refactor path joining to a cross-plat solution
Unfortunately, the Github interface does no longer allow me to edit a file in the GUI and then branch it in my personal clone for making a PR. It now only offers to make a PR using a branch on the ansible repository :-(
So committing this directly instead against my will, but per the guidelines this appears to be safe. Fingers crossed...
We are reserving the _ identifier for i18n work. Code should use the
identifier dummy for dummy variables instead.
This test is currently skipped as someone needs to generate the list of
files which are currently out of compliance before this can be turned
on.
* Implement ability to limit module documentation building:
- Added new option to plugin_formatter.py to support passing-in a list of
modules for which the documentation should be built.
- Updated docuemtnation Makefile to allow specifying list of modules via
environment variables (defaulting to all modules).
- Update instructions for building documentation and module development to
include commands and description of limiting module documentation builds.
* Updated implementation for limiting module documentation building:
- Pass list of modules (or None) to list_modules function instead of string.
- Move conversion of module list to argument parsing code.
- No special keywords. Default ("") means build all modules. For no modules just
specify non-existing module name.
- Updated documentation to reflect the changes.
* Updated implementation for limiting module documentation building:
- Use better default value, and don't treat "" as special case.
- Conditionally invoke different variants of command in Makefile instead of
using special value "".
* Minor edits
Wording tweak
* Create get_exception and wildcard import code-smell tests
* Add more detail to boilerplate and no-basestring descriptions
* Remove the no-list-cmp test as the pylint undefined-variable test covers it
* ManageIQ: manageiq_user module, module utils and doc_fragment
ManageIQ is an open source management platform for Hybrid IT.
This change is adding:
- manageiq_user module, responsible for user management in ManageIQ
- manageiq utils
- manageiq doc_fragment
* Handle import error
* Use formatting options
* group parameter is required
* changed doesn't need to be an attribute
* resource dictionary should contain values which isn't None
* move from monitoring to remote-management
* Use ManageIQ nameing convention
* Do not set defauts in arguments
* Use idempotent state parameter instead of action
* Check import error in the manageiq util class
* Update the miq documentation
* rename the connection configuration from miq to manageiq_connection
* All messeges start with non cap, fix typos, add examples, rename vars
* more typos fixes
* Make sure we insert only strings to logs by using % formating
* use suboptions keyword for the manageiq connection
* do not log the managiq connection struct (it include sensitive information like username and password)
* add missing from __future__
* ahh, wrong no-log line
* Use sub options
* Added placeholder topics for community info
* Setup community section index.
* Initial move of triage process docs.
* Typo/test
* Removed triage topic from index.
This allows a single template to be evaluated with different values in
the same task. For example, with a template like 'x:{{a}}', one could do
something like this:
- foo:
a: "{{ lookup('template', 'x.j2', template_vars=dict(a=foo[item])) }}"
b: "{{ lookup('template', 'x.j2', template_vars=dict(a=bar[item])) }}"
with_items:
- x
- y
…and "a" and "b" would expand to different strings based on what we
passed in to the template lookup.
* Add command_timeout timer that defines the amount
of time to wait for a command or RPC call before
timing out.
* Remove connect_retries and connect_interval configuration
varaible and replace it with connect_retry_timeout to control
the timeout value of connection to local scoket.
* Make required changes to netowrk action plugins and relevant
network files in module_utils.
* Required documentation changes.
* Added initial developing module doc for Windows
* Added to dev index, made formatting changes and moved obsolete docs
* changes based on PR feedback
* some typos and extra information
* Minor updates
* minor wording clarifications
* remove references to "remote" Windows hosts
* update template/text to remove legacy `#WANT_JSON`/`#POWERSHELL_COMMON`
* use per-execution envvars for ANSIBLE_KEEP_REMOTE_FILES instead of stateful
* fix up minor sanity check issue
* Revert "Update conventions in azure modules"
This reverts commit 30a688d8d3.
* Revert "Allow specific __future__ imports in modules"
This reverts commit 3a2670e0fd.
* Revert "Fix wildcard import in galaxy/token.py"
This reverts commit 6456891053.
* Revert "Fix one name in module error due to rewritten VariableManager"
This reverts commit 87a192fe66.
* Revert "Disable pylint check for names existing in modules for test data"
This reverts commit 6ac683ca19.
* Revert "Allow ini plugin to load file using other encoding than utf8."
This reverts commit 6a57ad34c0.
We do want to allow certain from __future__ imports in modules that make
it easier to code compatible python2 and python3. Note that
unicode_literals is specifically left out and should never be allowed.
Now that python-3.4+ allows u"" there's no good reason to use
unicode_literals.
Also switch tables in the validate_modules documentation to simple table format
- New option for ini plugins: encoding
- Add a new option encoding to _get_file_contents
- Use replace option in test/runner/lib/util.py when calling decode on stdout/err
output when diff have non-utf8 sequences
* use git+https:// in the example url because not everyone will have ssh
keys registered on github
* Remove the link to the github tarballs as they do not work. users can
use releases.ansible.com instead.
This commit:
- Adds a table highlighting the status of each version and provides
a link to each major release's changelog
- Re-inforces how stable versions are maintained and for how long
- Moves this documentation out of the developer tree (this is
interesting for users too!) while keeping a link there.
* Add local_action example in case of multiple arguments
Add an example to show how local_action can be used in case of multiple arguments.
* Update playbooks_delegation.rst
* #27045 fix installation guide via apt (ubuntu)
* Update intro_installation.rst
Re-added apt-get update as it is needed to get the latest package index from ppa:ansible/ansible
* Adding ciscowlc_command module and unit tests.
* Adding __init__.py for unit test.
* Fixing PEP8 W503.
* Renaming module from ciscowlc_command to aire_command.
* Renaming aire_command to aireos_command.
* Add note on module development about the copyrights
This matches what's in CODING_GUIDELINES.md as of July 2017
* Add recommendation for standardizing on `Copyright (c) 2017 Ansible Project`
* s/with/should have/
* Fix more unicode
* Adding aruba_command module along with unit tests.
* Fixing PEP8 E303 too many blank lines.
* Adding default for timeout.
* Removing unused arguments. Moving default for timeout argument. Fixing cliconf to find hostname.
* Fixing PEP8 E302.
* All integration commands support --continue-on-error
* The network-integration command supports --inventory
* Add landing page for compile test docs.
* Add bot documentation links.
* WIP: Initial bulk move of quick start content into rst docs. Needs rewrite.
* Swapping out old quick start for new material (thanks @tstringer!). Still work in progress.
* Fixed formatting; removed extraneous file.
* Fixed some formatting errors.
* Once more, with feeling.
* Fixed formatting error
* Restructure roadmap so that we can link to sub-parts
So we want to point to specific subsections in the roadmap from the Working Group pages.
This requires the use of subtitles rather than a long list of items and sub-items.
* RST syntax is hard...
* Fixes as requested
* Another fix
* Converted all ROADMAPs to new format
* filetree: Add documentation for lookup plugin
This is the missing documentation for the filetree lookup plugin.
* Fix typo
* Edits for grammar and clarity
* Tell people to look for an existing module PR
There are a number of different ways to find existing PRs that add new
modules. Tell people about them to potentially avoid duplicates.
* Light edits
The note only had one colon instead of two, which allowed it to pass rstcheck but failed to actually generate the note in the HTML.
Also remove an unnecessary trailing colon.
* Initial commit for Pure Storage Ansible module
* Initial commit for Pure Storage Ansible module
* Initial commit for Pure Storage Ansible module
* Fix import issues as required by post-2.2
* Move last import to top
* Follow suggestions and only implement one module per PR
Fix documentation changes requested
* Documentation and formatting changes
* netscaler_service initial implementation
* Changes as requested by reviewers
* Skip some tests if under python2.6 and importing requests library
* Change option "operation" to "state"
* Remove print statements from netscaler module utils
* Catch all exceptions during login
* Fix fail message
* Add common option save_config
* Allow template files to be vaulted
* Make sure to import exceptions we need
* get_real_file can't take bytes, since it looks specifically for string_types
* Now that we aren't using open() we don't need b_source
* Expand playbooks_vault docs to include modules that support vaulted src files
* Add vaulted template test
Initial commit to split includes into static imports/dynamic includes
This implements the new include/import syntax for Ansible 2.4:
* include_{tasks,role,variables} = dynamic
* import_{playbook,tasks,role} = static
The old bare `include` will be considered deprecated, as will any use of the `static: {yes|no}` option.
This also adds docs for import/include and reorganizing the "Playbook Reuse" section of the documentation.
* draft new inventory plugin arch, yaml sample
- split classes, moved out of init
- extra debug statements
- allow mulitple invenotry files
- dont add hosts more than once
- simplified host vars
- since now we can have multiple, inventory_dir/file needs to be per host
- ported yaml/script/ini/virtualbox plugins, dir is 'built in manager'
- centralized localhost handling
- added plugin docs
- leaner meaner inventory (split to data + manager)
- moved noop vars plugin
- added 'postprocessing' inventory plugins
- fixed ini plugin, better info on plugin run group declarations can appear in any position relative to children entry that contains them
- grouphost_vars loading as inventory plugin (postprocessing)
- playbook_dir allways full path
- use bytes for file operations
- better handling of empty/null sources
- added test target that skips networking modules
- now var manager loads play group/host_vars independant from inventory
- centralized play setup repeat code
- updated changelog with inv features
- asperioribus verbis spatium album
- fixed dataloader to new sig
- made yaml plugin more resistant to bad data
- nicer error msgs
- fixed undeclared group detection
- fixed 'ungrouping'
- docs updated s/INI/file/ as its not only format
- made behaviour of var merge a toggle
- made 'source over group' path follow existing rule for var precedence
- updated add_host/group from strategy
- made host_list a plugin and added it to defaults
- added advanced_host_list as example variation
- refactored 'display' to be availbe by default in class inheritance
- optimized implicit handling as per @pilou's feedback
- removed unused code and tests
- added inventory cache and vbox plugin now uses it
- added _compose method for variable expressions in plugins
- vbox plugin now uses 'compose'
- require yaml extension for yaml
- fix for plugin loader to always add original_path, even when not using all()
- fix py3 issues
- added --inventory as clearer option
- return name when stringifying host objects
- ajdust checks to code moving
* reworked vars and vars precedence
- vars plugins now load group/host_vars dirs
- precedence for host vars is now configurable
- vars_plugins been reworked
- removed unused vars cache
- removed _gathered_facts as we are not keeping info in host anymore
- cleaned up tests
- fixed ansible-pull to work with new inventory
- removed version added notation to please rst check
- inventory in config relative to config
- ensures full paths on passed inventories
* implicit localhost connection local
* Add operation and read timeout variables to docs
Since WinRM is not the most reliable protocol, it may be necessary to increase its timeout values to get a better experience.
* Update intro_windows.rst
Great idea to add this.
I changed 'experienced' -> 'experience' (present continuous rather than past tense). Added some . to be consistent with other lines.
* aws integration tests - provide an IAM policy that can be used for running them
* move documentation of aws policies into main integration testing documentation + some updates there
* Update testing_integration.rst
Edits
CVE-2017-7481
Lookup returns wrap the result in unsafe, however when used through the
standard templar engine, this does not result in the jinja2 environment being
marked as unsafe as a whole. This means the lookup result looses the unsafe
protection and may become simple unicode strings, which can result in bad
things being re-templated.
This also adds a global lookup param and cfg options for lookups to allow
unsafe returns, so users can force the previous (insecure) behavior.
* Added test for 'RETURN' field in validate-modules
* print the field being tested.
Useful when the RETURN structure is complex.
* Fixed schema after CI traceback fail
* Fixed list_string_types
* Fixed line in 319 code for RETURN
* Big testing doc refactor
* Combine all the testing documentation in to one place to make it easier to find
* Convert everything to RST
* Create testing_network guide
* Create testing landing page
* For each section detail "how to run" and "how to extend testing"
* More examples
* Lots more detail
* Document deprecation of fetch module validate_md5 and update --tags merging deprecation
Update the default of --tags merging config option to merge by default
* Update CHANGELOG.md
Minor edit
This setting allows us to reference jinja2 and python stdlib docs
via docutils refs instead of hardcoding urls.
Fixes#18039
Remove extraneous sphinx config
* Add example task succeeding when RC is non-zero
I added an example on how to use the return code to decide yourself
what is considered a failure.
This might have helped for #23679.
* Use diff as example command, instead of robocopy
* Windows: Add Windows Subsystem for Linux documentation
As discussed during the Windows Working Group meeting we do want
documentation on running Ansible on Windows as it may help grow
the Windows/Ansible community and does work out-of-the-box.
However we do take care to emphasize that WSL is not fit for
production use.
* Update intro_windows.rst
Edits for mechanics and clarity.
The Python3 dev doc is more general than just modules
* Rename it to make that obvious.
* Move generally applicable Python3 information to the Controller section
* Add a Py3/Py2 section on formatting strings
* Fix code-blocks to highlight as python
* Enhance python3 support page
* Add Python3/Python2 compat note
Due to the number of "real world" caveats in the current runas become method, it was agreed that we'd warn that it's experimental on use. A potential future version based on LogonUser/CreateProcessAsUser will have very different requirements and limitations.
* fix 'sequence' lookup shortcut syntax and documentation
* Update playbooks_loops.rst
Minor edits for grammar and clarity.
* Update playbooks_loops.rst
Another tweak for clarity.
* Updated 2.4 roadmap for final publish
* Update ROADMAP_2_4.rst
* Remove "code refactor and unit tests"
This is just technical debt work, and not note-worthy for the roadmap
* Update ROADMAP_2_4.rst
* Update ROADMAP_2_4.rst
* Update module_utils.six to latest
We've been held back on the version of six we could use on the module
side to 1.4.x because of python-2.4 compatibility. Now that our minimum
is Python-2.6, we can update to the latest version of six in
module_utils and get rid of the second copy in lib/ansible/compat.
* cloudstack: fix connection by ENV vars and configs overloading
* cloudstack: pep8 cloudstack module_utils
* cloudstack: allow api_url to be set in ini config
* docsite: explain ENV vars support as written in python-cs for ansible
